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Hold Back the Dawn (1941) Direction: Mitchell Leisen Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring’s story Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp   Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn   Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen’s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket for the director’s World War II-era films. Adapted by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett from Ketti Frings‘ semi-autobiographical story, Hold Back the Dawn stars Charles Boyer as George Iscovescu, a Romanian dancer unable to enter the U.S. from Mexico due to immigration quotas imposed at the onset of the European conflict. Paulette Goddard is his scheming former partner, Anita, who marries an American to [...] »

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1 article from 2009